Wednesday's Inspiration

"Life is not meaningful......unless it is serving an end beyond itself;
unless it is of value to someone else."
_____ Abraham Joshua Heschel

Tuesday's Inspiration

"If you choose a job that you like,
You will never have to work a day in your life."
_____ Confucius

Monday's Message

"The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world."
_____ Zhuang Tzi

Weekend Inspiration

"Live in love
And do your work;
Make amends of your sorrows;
For just as the jasmine
Releases and lets fall its withered flowers,
Let fall willfulness and hatred."
_____ The Dhammapada

Friday's Inspiration

"To the right, books; to the left, a teacup. In front of me, the fireplace....
There is no greater happiness than this."
_____ Teiga

Thursday's Inspiration

"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world."
_____ Marianne Williamson

Wednesday's Inspiration

"Friend, hope for the truth while you are alive. Jump into experience while you are alive. What you call salvation belongs to the time before death. If you don't break your ropes while you are alive, do you think ghosts will do lt after."
_____ Kabir

Tuesday's Inspiration

Blue Hosta Leaf

"From the pine tree learn of the pine tree,
And from the bamboo learn of the bamboo."
_____ Basho

Monday's Message

Blue Hosta

"Walking is Zen.
Sitting, to, is Zen.
If I speak or am silent,
Tarry or hasten:
Everything, in its true nature,
Is stillness."
_____ Shodoka

Weekend Inspiration

Hosta
"Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment
And to look at all beings with eyes of compassion."
_____ Thich Nhat Nanh

Friday's Inspiration

Twisted Lady Fern

"When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways- either by losing hope and falling into
Self destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength."
_____ Dalai Lama

Thursday's Inspiration

Bottle Palm

"The fundimental delusion of humanity is to
Suppose that I am here and you are out there."
_____ Yasutani Roshi

Wednesday's Inspiration

Red Dracena's

"Most people think that we live in the actual world while we are alive, and that after we take the last breath we somehow wander into the vague realm of the spirit. It is a great mistake to see two separate realms."
_____ Soen Nakagawa

Tuesday's Inspiration

European Fantail Palm

"I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness
From the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to those teachers."
_____ Kahlil Gibran

Monday's Message

Witches Broom Spruce

"Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires."
_____ Loa-tzu

Holiday

Hi everyone I just wanted to let you know that I am on holidays for the week.The blog will return next Monday.

Weekend Inspiration

"Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true,
It is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transcience, we suffer."
_____ D. T. Suzuki

Friday's Inspiration

"Root out the violence in your life, and lesarn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace.
When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible."
_____ Thich Nhat Hanh

And the Winners Are

I would like to thank everyone who entered my giveaway and for the nice comments that where posted.

The winners are,

The green doily goes to Lace Lovin Librarian, Diane

The Middle Earth HDT goes to Ladytats

The Peace HDT goes to Sharon D

Thursday's Inspiration

"...to look life in the face, always to look life in the face, and to know what it is, to love it for what it is.
At last to know it. To love it for what it is. And then to put it away."
_____ Virginia Woolf

Wednesday's Inspiration

"If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete."
_____ Buddha

Tuesday's Inspiration

"The esscence of man is not what he is,
But in what he is able to be."
_____ Abraham Joshua Heschel

Remember there are still 2 days to enter the giveaway. See Mondays post to enter.

Some Tatting and a Giveaway

This is a doily I just finished making using Lady Shuttlemakers Silk Hand Dyed Thread size 60 colour Middle Earth. The pattern is just one I made up as I went along.
Below is a picture of the doily that I am giving away along with 50 yards of Middle Earth HDT, size 60. All you have to do to be entered is to leave a comment with your name. Good luck. Deadline is thursday noon.

Due to the overwhelming response to my giveaway I have decided to change it a little to give more people a chance to win. There will now be 3 prizes.
1. The green doily
2. 50 yard skein of Middle Earth HDT size 60 by Lady Shuttlemaker
3. A small skein of Peace HDT size 80 by Yarnplayer

Friday's Inspiration and My 50th Birthday

Today I celebrate my 50th birthday and while that may not be a big milestone for some it is a huge one for me as I am the first male in 4 generations of my family to NOT have a heart attack or die of one before turning 50. So today I celebrate life.

"Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past;
We are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present."
_____ Alan Watts

Wednesday's Inspiration

"Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity."
_____ Henry David Thoreau

Tuesday's Inspiration

"To live for some future goal is shallow.
It is the sides of mountains that sustain life, not the top."
_____ Robert M. Pirsig

Monday's Message

"Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places?
Look for delusion and truth in the bottom of your own heart."
_____Ryokan

Weekend Inspiration

"God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, Ah."
_____ Joseph Campbell

Friday's Inspiration

"Wish not so much to live long, as to live well."
_____ Benjamin Franklin

Thursday's Inspiration

"No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself."
_____ Tilopa

Tuesday's Inspiration

"The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous,
Uninspiring, commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity."
_____ D. T. Suzuki

Monday's Message

"Do, or do not. There is no try."
_____ Yoda

Weekend Inspiration

"Only one who bursts with enthusiasm do I instruct;
Only one who bubbles with excitement do I enlighten."
_____ Confucius

Friday's Inspiration

"Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work that will be a material
Reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all."
_____ Robert M. Pirsig

Thursday's Inspiration

"There is no way to peace; peace is the way."
_____ A. J. Muste

Sorry, no Tatting

Sorry there have not been any pictures of Tatting lately but I have been fighting double pneumonia and because of the puffers I have been having to use my hands shake to much to do tatting. Hopefully it will clear up soon so I can get back to my tatting.

Wednesday's Inspiration

"Our task must be to free ourselves from our prison by widening our circle of compassion
To embrace all humanity and the whole of nature in its beauty."
_____ Albert Einstein

Monday's Message

"My religion is very simple.
My religion is kindness."
____ Dalai Lama

Weekend Inspiration

"To know what you know and to know what
you don't know, that is real wisdom."
_____ Confucius

Friday's Inspiration

"There is only one good, that is, knowledge;
and only one evil, that is, ignorance."
_____ Socrates

Thursday's Inspiration

"The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.
Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience."
_____ Joseph Campbell

Wednesday's Inspiration

"Keep your heart clear and transparent,
And you will never be bound.
A single disturbed thought
Creates ten thousand distractions."
_____ Ryokan

Tuesday's Inspiration

"When the moon
Of your mind becomes
Clouded over with confusion,
You are searching
Around for the light outside."
_____ Hozoin Gakuzengo Inye

Monday's Message

"True study of the way
Does not rely on
Knowledge and genius
Or cleverness and brilliance.
It is an easy thing."
_____ Dogen

Weekend Inspiration

"The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness.
How can I become still? By flowing with the stream."
_____ Lao-tzu

Friday's Inspiration

Happy Canada Day to all my fellow canucks.

"Those who have failed to work towards the truth have missed the purpose of living."
_____ Buddha

Thursday's Inspiration

"Through contemplation, we realize that our own power proves inadequate,
and we learn to trust a power that is beyond ourselves."
_____ Jim Wallis

Wednesday's Inspiration

"Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am."
_____ Voltaire

Tuesday's Inspiration

"Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it."
_____ Jack Kerouac

Monday's Message

"To understand the immeasurable,
The mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still."
_____ J. Krishnamurti